MSNBC Cuts Hosts' Election Coverage Amid Criticism Mon, 08 Sep 2008 09:16:00 -0400 Critics have been accusing the media of political bias throughout this election season. MSNBC and its popular talk show host, Keith Olbermann, have been frequent targets. Now the 24-hour news channel is pulling him and fellow talk show host Chris Matthews from some anchoring duties on newscasts. Energy A Priority As Congress Returns From Break Mon, 08 Sep 2008 09:09:00 -0400 Lawmakers return to Washington this week energized by their conventions and turning their attention to energy. House Republicans stayed in town over the break to demand an end to the ban on offshore drilling. Democrats now appear to be more open to compromise. Paulson: Mortgage Takeover Key For Economy Mon, 08 Sep 2008 07:54:00 -0400 The federal takeover of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac is aimed at preventing a "serious risk to the financial system," which is "critical to our overall economy," Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson tells NPR.
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Dorothy Wickenden: An old-style, Los Angeles feminist on Obama. Dorothy Wickenden Fri, 29 Aug 2008 04:00:00 -0000 Rosalind Wyman--seventy-seven years old; doughty feminist; political fund-raiser and philanthropist; hostess to J.F.K., Jimmy Carter, and Bill Clinton, and Hollywood types too numerous to count; youngest elected member of the Los Angeles City Council (at the age of twenty-two); first woman to run a national political . . . Lauren Collins: The Brooklyn painter Kehinde Wiley. Lauren Collins Mon, 25 Aug 2008 04:00:00 -0000 The painter Kehinde Wiley first travelled to Nigeria in 1997. He was trying to find his father, whom he had never met, or, more crucially for a portraitist, seen. (His mother didn’t have any photographs.) After several weeks in Lagos, he found his dad, who welcomed him. But--like any . . . James Surowiecki: What drives market volatility? James Surowiecki Mon, 25 Aug 2008 04:00:00 -0000 American investors are frazzled. True, oil prices have fallen from their most vertiginous highs, the dollar is a bit stronger, and the stock market has actually risen over the past month. But none of those things have happened in a smooth and steady fashion. The stock market’s “ascent,” in particular . . .
i-Contact Video Network - Video for Positive Change - Non-profit making initiative: provides support for those using video for Positive Change, including Progressive, Alternative and Independent Video Makers and Video Activists. Website includes guides on how to use video and the media, articles about the media and an email list.
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Undercurrents - Series of videos about activism around the UK which comes out twice a year. Covers green issues, AR, and social justice.
Blind Eye Media - Produced the Exoptic Fields video - a video designed to deflect attention from the screen, for the relief of TV and Internet addiction.
Cannonball Express - A video project-in-progress about urban firestorms, home fire safety and the environment.
Flying Focus Video Collective - The Flying Focus Video Collective is a group of activists using video as a tool for social change. They have over 350 programs dealing with public policy issues have been cablecast and shown at occasional public screenings.
Headwaters Action Video Collective - Our videos have alerted people to the corporate destruction of the ancient redwood rainforest here in the US. They have shown the power of nonviolent direct action and civil-disobedience.
i-Contact DIYVID Email List - Set up to support Progressive Video, Video Activism, Community Video and Radical Video. Intended to support video makers working in the domain of Human Rights, and Environmentalism and Community Video.
Organic Chaos Productions - Dissatisfied with what we see as the one-sided reports produced by the mainstream media, we have set up our own alternative: Organic Chaos Productions. With this not-for-profit organization we intend to report on the undercurrents in society, and show what the mainstream media prefer not to broadcast.
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Paper Tiger Television - USA - A video collective pioneering media criticism through video since 1981. Over 280 programs on issues of democratic communications, media representation and the economics of the information industry.
Progressive Video Webring - WebRing for Progressive, Radical, Community, Video/TV and Video Activism
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Whispered Media - Videoactivist collective, makers of Pie's the LimitReclaim Mayday 1998Shut 'em Down, contributers to Showdown in Seattle - Five Days that Shook the WTO and Breaking the Bank. Whispered Media also helps maintain the Video Activist Network website.
